400,000 Deaths: Nurses perform an act in front of the Planalto Palace
On May 1, 2021, a group of nurses held an act in honor of the more than 400,000 deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil and in defense of the category's labor rights. The act took place a year after a protest held by the sector also in front of the Planalto […]
Movements launch Zero Eviction campaign to contain actions during pandemic
Dozens of representatives of popular and social movement entities came together to launch the “Zero Eviction” campaign, in a virtual event held on July 23, 2020. They denounced repossessions and evictions that continue to happen across the country, in the midst of the crisis. sanitary and accelerated transmission of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), which took the […]
National Strike of Application Deliverers
App delivery service workers held a nationwide strike on July 1, 2020 in Brazil. The call material for participation in the strike, both for delivery people and users of delivery applications, was published on the Twitter and Facebook accounts of “Treta No Trampo“.
Brazil needs to breathe
Popular movements marked a “great act” to call for the “impeachment now” of the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, at a time when the country registered the mark of 211,000 deaths from Covid-19. The event took place on January 24, 2021 at Praça dos Três Poderes, in Brasília. Access here.
Emergency in Manaus
On January 14, 2021, several videos of health professionals, especially in Manaus-AM, exploded on social media, denouncing the lack of oxygen pumps in hospitals. Several patients died because they did not have access to equipment, not only those contaminated with Covid-19, but also other diseases, for example, there is great concern about the […]
Mother's Day in Mexico: Online and Offline Protests
The Movimiento por Nuestros Desaparecidos en Mexico, made up of more than 60 groups from Mexico and three Central American countries, demands that the Mexican government not stop the search for the 61,000 missing people and that efforts to identify more than 37,000 people be accelerated. bodies. On Mother's Day (May 10th), […]
Crosses in the sand and grass honor the dead
In memory of those killed by the pandemic, activists placed a thousand crosses on the lawns of Esplanada dos Ministérios (Brasília), on Sunday, June 28, 2020. The NGO Rio de Paz had already held a similar protest on June 11, at Copacabana Beach. .
Data on protests related to the pandemic
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) launched the COVID-10 Disorder Tracker, to systematize data on protests and conflicts related to the pandemic in various regions of the world. It ranges from episodes of violence against health workers to protests against isolation measures.
Brazilian Women's Uprising Manifesto
The Manifesto draws attention to the government's wrong policy in the fight against the coronavirus, to the genocide of young black people, increasing inequalities and impoverishment of the population. “We fight for the end of slavery and fascism, against the military dictatorship and for democracy. We demand an answer on Who Ordered Marielle to Kill and we are going to overthrow Bolsonaro and […]
Act for the return of emergency aid and vaccination
On February 18, 2021, the Black Coalition for Rights held acts in 28 cities in the country, 18 of which were capitals. The Black Coalition for Rights is formed by more than 200 entities, which, on the day of the mobilizations, filed official letters demanding from the federal, state and municipal governments measures to combat poverty, from […]
